Published in 1963, the same year as the Organization of African Unity was founded, Africa Must Unite can be considered as a revolutionary manifesto. Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of independent Ghana (1957) issues a passionate warning. He argues that if the newly liberated African nations remain fragmented, they will inevitably fall prey to “neo-colonialism,” a more subtle but equally suffocating form of external control.
Nkrumah’s political view has encountered Pan-Africanism and has developed itself within it, conceiving this ideology in a different way. His dream of a “United States of Africa” wasn’t born out of mere ego, but out of a pragmatic belief that only a continent-wide economic and political union could secure true dignity and prosperity for its people.
[Nkrumah, K. (1963). Africa Must Unite. Heinemann.]
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